Thursday Island, Australia
Thursday Island really excited us because it was, we were told, a really rare opportunity to spend some time with the native people of Australia.
Which is, in case you’re wondering, a really, really hard thing to do.
We also came to find out that the “Aborigines” are not the only native people of Australia. The “Torres Straight Islanders” are a completely different native people than the people of mainland Australia. So we actually spent some time visiting Aboriginal sites in mainland Australia but while we spent time in an area where there were “natives” these natives were not “Aborigines”…kind of confusing at first.
In a previous post, we talked about our experiences with racism and sexism in Australia.
But we would not be fair in our reporting unless we explained both sides of the coin here.
Because the natives do not make this easy.
